Confiscated books were considered to be as necessary to the war effort as seized munitions or fuel.
The city was roiled by arrests; a friend at McGill known for his New Left sympathies saw his flat raided; the police confiscated books, including, he laughed nervously, one entitled "Cubism".
Then it confiscated books and papers supporting Reich's theory and burned them.
Natalia Sharina, who has headed the library since 2011, was detained by police after they searched the library, confiscating books and documents deemed to spread "anti-Russian propaganda".
As recently as 2005, Choukri's text was removed from a syllabus at the American University of Cairo for explicit sex scenes, and censors confiscated the book from the Cairo International book fair in 2008. .
4 31 p.m. | Update: According to the organizers of the book-shield project, members of the New York City Police Department confiscated the book shields that were to be used for the May Day events at Cooper Union today.
Unfortunately, the nuns confiscated the book before White got round to the last bit.
In an interview soon after Candide's detention, the official who confiscated the book explained the office's decision to ban it, "But about 'Candide,' I'll tell you.
The police confiscated computers, books and magazines and threatened to charge Mr. Bakir's lawyer, who had come over to assist the family, after he asked the masked police officer to remove his mask for transparency's sake, Ms. Bakir said.
An order was issued to confiscate the book, but by the time the police visited bookstores, they were told that all copies had been sold.
